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Regular Eye Checks Could Save Your Vision
[Health]Are you taking good enough care of your eyes? According to a new study, your gender and where you live may indicate if you are practicing good eye health.Women go to eye doctors 28 percent more...
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"Mugabe: Villain Or Hero" Screening, Million Youth March And Other Events
On Saturday June 22, 2013 at 2:00 PMCEMOTAP INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE, SLIDE SHOW AND BOOK PRESENTATION- "Images of the African Child, Past, Present, at Home and Abroad: An Afternoon with Runoko...
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Kalae Nouveau Rips Stage at R Bar with a New Name and Sound
Kalae Nouveau told us she hadn't peformed with a live band in a year and half but you wouldn't have known it standing in the audience at R Bar last night. Donning black lipstick (a change from her...
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Voting Rights: Justice Has Prevailed
Voting is a right, not a privilege. Apparently some folks need a reminder every now and then.When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law, it solidified every American citizen's right to vote and...
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NYC Mayoral Race 2013: Liu Looks To Surprise Pundits With Strong Show From...
[NYC Mayor's Race 2013]New York City Mayoral candidate John Liu believes his poll numbers are under-reported by as much as 12 points and says he will surprise people with a strong voter-turnout from...
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Uganda: Emperor Museveni Tries To Block Sun From Shining Light On Crumbling...
[Commentary]Gen. Museveni Gen. Sejusa's Expose Of Alleged 'Muhoozi Project' Sets Chain-reaction Leading To Monitor Being MuzzledA curious thing happened in Uganda on Thursday. There was news but it was...
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Miami NBA Champions 2013 With James' Spectacular Plays
The Miami Heat are back-to-back NBA champions with the team's 95-88 victory last night over the San Antonio Spurs.There were times towards the waning minutes of Game 7 of the NBA Finals when you held...
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Interracial Relationships: The Delusion of Post-Racial World
I often hear the phrase,“I don’t see color, I only see people” or“love is colorless” or “you can’t help who you love” or“in a few years we are all going to be mixed and it would be one world [ie. mix...
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Southern Secession II: Obama As Buchanan or Lincoln?
of the people by the people for the people... [States Of Disunion]This Saturday will mark the 50th anniversary of the March to Freedom down Woodward Avenue in Detroit.The UAW will be there, as they...
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Belafonte, Schultz, Bloomberg Honored At Abyssinian's Harlem Renaissance Day
Actor-activist and champion of human rights globally Harry Belafonte, a recipient of the Harlem Renaissance Award presented by Abyssinian Development Corporation shown with Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts,...
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Friends Of WBAI: Come To Screening of "Dear Mandela"
Dear Friends and Family of South Africa and Listener-supported WBAI 99.5 FM NYC PACIFICA RADIOPlease join us for a screening of the powerful and moving documentary "Dear Mandela" on Sunday, June 23,...
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Homegoings: Christine Turner's Film On Isaiah Owens To Die For?
Isaiah Washington[Film]When you watch "Homegoings" and hear Isaiah Owens the mortician describe death and funerals, suddenly you're not afraid to die any more. In fact, for a split second, you may even...
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My View On Immigration: We Must Share These Ill-gotten Gains
Mitt Romney's solution was "self deportation." He said it with straight face[Immigration]Immigration is a hot-button topic these days and there are many people dead set against allowing anyone else...
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Paula Deen And Our N-word Paradox
[Pardon My Rant]Paula Deen a Caucasian celebrity becomes unemployed for using racial slurs.But we have seen this before. Paula is not the first to have been caught candidly in such a negative light. In...
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Ode To Motherhood: Most Valuable Profession in Our Society
[Beneath The Spin]'We’re currently paying a severe price for our bigoted attitude towards women...'The primary reason that our society is falling apart is because we’ve devalued the most important...
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The Yunus Method: Let's Not Give Up On Fighting Poverty
[The Children's Corner]When he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this spring my friend, and visionary, Dr. Muhammad Yunus said:“We can change the world --- Let’s believe in it; let’s make it...
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In Fighting Workplace Discrimination Supreme Court's Vance And Nassar Ruling...
Justice Ginsburg[The Supreme Court: Op-Ed]The Supreme Court’s decisions today in Vance v. Ball State University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar show continuing...
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Supreme Court: Diversity Is Important In Higher Education
[The Supreme Court: Op-Ed]In a 7-1 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court considered but did not resolve the constitutionality of the admissions program at the University of...
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Solution: Class-Based Affirmative Action For Colleges?
Lani Guinier[Supreme Court: Op-Ed]Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them.Great numbers of...
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African Education: Sankofa Academy Students At Gullah Festival
Ollie McClean, far right, shown with some of her students[Education]Sankofa International Academy is located in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant, a community with a bleak educational forecast because...
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